Dwight ripley read



ILPETERS, PHGTWUTHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D C.

durch nes Iii DWIGHT sinner READ, or LAWRENCE, Kansas.

Letters atent No. 113,928, dated April 18,1871.

iicPnovsMeN-r nv BEE-Hives.

The Schedule referred to in these Patent and making part o the same.'

Vset forth herein, using ietters pi' reference to the several parts, as shown in the drawing.

Figure?. is a vertical section of end of hive. Figure 2 is a top view of hive with the cover removed. Y Figure 3 is a view in perspective, with a portion o top, side, and end removed.

The scale of drawing is one-fourth size. The sizes and proportions may be varied, but are given as preferred to scale, andthe body of the hivel is of regular qnadrangularform, of wood.

A is the side walls; B B, the frames for comb; and O, the honey-boxes.

To secure the benefit of the vital heat of the hive to assist in starting work in the honey-boxes O, and to avoid the trouble to thev loaded bees in bringing inhoney to store in the 'boxes in passing up through they crowded mass in the center of hive, the boxes lC are placed in the body -of the hive, at one end,`as shown, instead of outside, on top, as is usual; and to obviate the loss and diiculty'of Weak swarms in heating up large vacant hives the division-board E is used, to place across the hive at any point to suit-the size of swarm, iiliiing the inclosed space with frames B B at suitable distances; the size of the space to be enlarged as the colony gets larger.

To prevent this division-board E from being glued to the sides too strongly it is made rather smaller than the cross-section. of hive, and Vhas strips of tin fastened around to project and fill the .edges to the walls.

The position of this board in iig. 2 is that of the full hive, and the space beyond it is that for the lboxes O. This is kept clo'sedexceptA at the period for filling the boxes.

At the bottom of Eis a passage-space, F, from the hive to the boxes. This is kept closed by a strip oi' tin slid through a thin saw-slit from the outside, and removed when desired to be open.'

The boxes O are of any suitable size and shape, and either one, two, three, or four in number.

They are hung in frames G, by which they are set lilo or removed readily, Without disturbing the general ive.

For this purpose the top board is made in two parts, B.' and I, so that either may be removed separately to uncover the box space or that of the brood.

The top is not fastened by either nails or screws, which disturb the bees by removing, but by clamps K K', which are pivoted by the depending parts L L -at their ends to the outside ends of hive, at some distance down, so as to turn readily on or ofi' the beveled edges of the top board to-hold them firmly to the hive.

The frames B B are of suitable formation, and are hung loosely in the hive, so as not to touch the top, bottom, or sides, and are held by screws near their tops, at M M', which project so as to set with their4 heads on a step-offset in the sidewalls, being screwed into the frames.

The4 frame G is broad, for holding the boxes C, and held in thegsame way by a screw at each edge on both sides.

The box part of hive is made without a bottom. It sets upon a base, N. This base has a bottom, side walls two 0r thi-ee inches high, and a top, which covers a space corresponding in size to thc space occupied by the bottom oi the boxes O.` The side Walls of the base N iit closely to those of the top part.

This base N has a partition, O, separating au 1nternai open space, P, for feeding, and a space, E, which hasa wire screen over it for separation and ventilation. ',This space R serves as a moth-trap, where mothbait and poi'son are placed.

It has a door, S, infront, which is removable, and' is-supported at the upper edges of the ends S' by pivots, which serve for the door to swing on to partly raise it for the admission of' moths, inillers, and air.

The bees are admitted by an opening, "l, in front, latthe bottom, over the wire-screen part, and there is also another opening at U for entrance to the boxes C.

The boxes O have glass ends, which rest against the end of hive.

Throwh this are holes W W for seeing whenl the boxes are'full.

Over these holes tin parts X X are pivoted, to turn for closing. f

I claim-- A bee-hive constructed substantially as describedthat' is to say, the box A, having cover H the clamps K K', base N with partition O, spaces R P, and door S, comb-frames B with screws M M', divisionboard E, frame G, and honey-boxes C, all arranged relatively one to the. other, as and for the purpose set forth.

' DWIGHT RIPLEY, READ. Witnesses:

SAMUEL JACOB WALLACE, ADOLPH RINKER.- 

